sending more than 5 values to a dclerk from command line

William J. McEachran bill.mceachran at gmail.com
Fri Apr 3 08:59:25 PDT 2015


Make up your own command line flags, make sure to use flags not being used
by filepro already naturally, and read them in via
 @cmdline or @argv[]

On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 11:53 AM, James Flanagan <James at flantec.com> wrote:

> Filepro 5.7.0.4
> FreeBSD
>
> I am working on an external mechanism (outside of filepro) where i would
> like a user to be able to send 12 or more keywords to dreport via a unix
> command line, and then using a V table, it will limit the records to those
> keywords, and then it will generate the desired report.  that said, i only
> have @PM, @PW, @PX, @PY and @PZ to work with .  what is the most elegant
> way to get 12 or more keywords into a V table?  Should i use the 5 existing
> R flags and use a MID command to chop them up into the multiple values?  Is
> there another, better way to accomplish this?   thank you very much, in
> advance.
>
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